Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,766, Jeremiah Driscoll, Mass.

NUMBER
SERVICE
Mass
Driscoll, Jeremiah
S 34,766
CONTENTS

7533
Massachusetts
Jeremiah Davis estate
of Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dill of the Massachusetts line, for the term of six years
Enscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 March 1818 and sent to Mrs. Mary Davis Salem Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $88.40 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48.
$136.40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

St. Drinok
Entered Sept. 17/75
Col. Little Ref -
Mapa. Lim 5/11/75
Alma-Cl.

State of Massachusetts
I Jeremiah Driscoll a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the month of April or May in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the said service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to November in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty two.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Wade in the Regiment of Colonel Little in the Massachusetts line of the army.
and that I left the service on the expiration of the term aforesaid being then honorably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of more than Seventy years My discharge this lapse of time is now lost & I have no other evidence in my power to offer than is herewith exhibited.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Attest Wm Wetmore
Jerem. X Driscoll's mark
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed Jeremiah Driscoll
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court. I further certify that the within named Deponents are credible & disinterested witnesses & have been duly sworn.
Wm Wetmore

We the subscribers testify that the within named Declarant is supported at the expence of the town of Gloucester as one of the poor of said town —
John Attridge } Overseers Eben Dale } of the Poor
I the undersigned late Colonel of a Regiment of Militia in the State of Massachusetts & a Lieutenant in the Regiments of Colonels Hutchinson & Russell Putnam & in the Companies of Captains Putnam Whipple & Gates during the Revolutionary war, now residing at Gloucester Do testify that the within named Declarant served in d r war & as I verily believe for the term of time stated by him —
John Tucker
Sworn to before me
Wm Wetmore Judge

34 766 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34 766
Jeremiah Discol His Rev. Wm
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 114
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3 rd Regt. Art. Col. Levan's.
Driskell, Joseph
B.L.W. 529-200. Lieut Issued May 30, 1789. No papers!